I don't understand why a competitor would enter in a lease back. Why give them the capital to stay afloat? Do I not see the big picture.
Perhaps you should read more about how these corporations shuffle money back and forth while using those capital expenditures as tax write offs.
One sentence in the SEC filing states what most people fail to see, and that is "The Selling Subsidiaries have previously entered into leases with Estes, as both landlord and tenant", in short, YRC leases facilities to Estes.
It's a corporate money game where both profit in some way.